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"That's very nice but can you email me a copy in Microsoft Word DOCX format please?"

• jen729w 4y ago
  I’m just about to live this hell. On advice from a friend, my response will be a simple one: no, because it doesn’t exist. It was written in Markdown [0]. Here’s a PDF. I’m expecting the usual pushback, and will reciprocate. I’ll let you know how it goes. [0]: https://github.com/johnnydecimal/resume/blob/main/resume.md https://github.com/johnnydecimal/resume/blob/main/resume.md (Yeah I shamelessly inserted my own résumé.)
  • rthomas6 4y ago
    I work for a company that was acquired by Leidos relatively recently. Hello fellow coworker.
  • Aeolun 4y ago
    I gave up, I now generate my CV in docx from JSON, and convert that to PDF.
  • jamwil 4y ago
    Went through this. Gave up and remade it in Word. Practical beats pure sometimes. Tough for us HN types.
    • ant6n 4y ago
      Can’t u just insert a screenshot of the of the pdf in a word document?
      • jamwil 4y ago
        Not if you want the job. They run the word files through screening software which processes the text.
  • lyjackal 4y ago
    Pandoc does a good job of generating docx files from markdown
• nwmcsween 4y ago
  Sure thing! unzip resume.docx; cd resume; dd if=/dev/random of=crap.tax bs=1M count=19;cd ..; zip resume.docx resume
  • Something1234 4y ago
    You're going to be sitting there for a while waiting for blocking random to fill 19MB. You want urandom.
    • chungy 4y ago
      These days, blocking random isn't a thing anymore. /dev/random and /dev/urandom just do the same non-blocking operation.
• quickthrower2 4y ago
  Reply with: traceroute cv6.poinsignon.org | pandoc -o whywhywhy-o-why.docx